Can you elaborate on this? Why wouldn’t you be able to talk about it?
Edited to include: really don’t think it’s appropriate to compare this system to swatting. I think of it more as: if someone starts shouting racial slurs in a theme park, the other people there are going to tell them to leave.
I genuinely believe that right-click reporting isn’t compatible with the social climate classic will foster. Squelch-mafias don’t exist on retail because sharding ensures there’s no way to organize and nothing to organize against, as I’ve said before.
Back in vanilla, things were very different. People you don’t like will always re-appear. Guilds will fight, bitterly, over world bosses, and seek to punish those who call them out. Crafters will try to silence their competition, and prevent them from advertising on trade, because vanilla crafting wars are fierce as hell.
And then there’s streamers. Ugh.
and those who abuse it like that will get punished.
Will they? Even though they are the victim of the “verbal harassment”?
He just described people abusing the system for specific reasons, yes they will likely get punished.
How so? Abuse of the system is breaking the rules. It is spelled out quite clearly.
Blizz is going to let this ride and see what the community does with it. I for one am very curious.
Is blizz desperate enough for subs to ignore this if it’s abused or will blizz whip out the ban hammer and pwn some rule breakers straight away? So people shut up/don’t abuse it? Time will tell. You guys might get lucky on this. Blizz crunches the numbers and sees banning folks is detrimental to the bottom line… lol. Good luck.
Discussing disciplinary action including account squelches is against Blizzards code of conduct.
2nd to last bullet on the list.
So hypothetically someone gets squelched and opens a forum thread about it, someone could flag their post for violating the COC and they’d get a forum suspension for like 2 days I think it is, as well as the thread being locked or deleted.
But that’s only if someone reports it.
If people are willing to do something that might get someone killed over a video game they are willing to report people for saying something they disagree with even if it isn’t against the rules.
Huh. Learn something new every day.
Not really to familiar with discord as I’ve only ever used it like 1 or 2 times; but if you did I might check it out and see if I have anything to offer.
I’m going to check a few rules on what can and can’t be posted on the forums and work on this. I will likely create a thread on this later.
you can post in the CS forums all you want.
The only auto-squelch, auto silence feature should be in the game for the people who actively selling gold or services with real life money. The rest violations should only be handled by a Blizzard employee who genuinely trained for such actions.
If you really want to build a community, you should never encourage to spread fear or censor what people are thinking. Ignore feature is very handy if you strongly disagree with someone who speaks their mind. You make a community with like-minded people and ignore the people you dislike. You do NOT need to silence the rest who disagree with your perception of world.
Those other patrons do not have the authority to make that rude customer leave, though.
They can ask the park management to make that customer leave (submit a report), but they cannot do it themselves. They can avoid the rude customer (ignore), but they cannot beat that customer into submission and impose their will on that customer.
Abuse of the right click report system is comparable to swatting, IMO. Both are situations in which someone is falsely targeted with the intent to cause extreme inconvenience, to say the least, for the targeted victim.
Did you really? Really.
Really.
And yet we’ve seen evidence of many squelched/silenced players doing just that in the CS subforum, where they have been shown to be completely guilty of what they were actually squelched/silenced for. Those threads still exist and I’ve seen no evidence that the OPs were disciplined for posting them.
I’m not the one that brought up that analogy.
But, tell us how abuse of the right click report system is not the same principle as swatting, only differing in “severity”.
Because you can’t squelch someone by yourself, that’s a start.
Notice that I said “the same principle”? I did not say the same in every way.
Do both abuse of the squelch system and swatting target innocent people with the intent cause those people be inconvenienced, at the very least?
That’s kind of weird huh; blizzards isn’t enforcing a punishment on people doing something against their COC…(even on CS forums it’s against the COC)
Almost like they don’t have time or manpower to properly deal with that many people violating the rules.
Or maybe they just selectively enforce it, or maybe they don’t care but just have that rule up in case someone says something they really don’t like.
I don’t know for sure but I’m not about to engage in some topic that blizzards is 50/50 on what they’ll do about it…I tend to always get low/bad rolls in games so I don’t wanna test my luck which has proven to be lacking in the past.
Is there a non abusive use of swatting?